New Zealanders who visit get very excited over the feijoas – also known as pineapple guavas. Apparently they are part of many N. Z. childhoods?
I would like to say I feel the same way about the fruit… but.. more often than not the entire crop ends up bitten by fruit fly and on the ground. This tends to peak at Easter, so every Easter Sunday that end of the garden looks like a demented Easter bunny has dropped green and brown fruity Easter eggs.
By contrast, I DO get a bit excited by the flowers. The petals are like a thick, crisp suede, but have a lovely, fruity flavour. Even though I don’t eat the fruit, I can’t bring myself to eat many of the flowers because it feels like I am stopping the life-cycle… which really makes no sense if they are just going to end up on the ground.